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In 2005, Joel Greenblatt published a book that is already considered one of the classics of finance literature. In The Little Book that Beats the Market—a New York Times bestseller with 300,000 copies in print—Greenblatt explained how investors can outperform the popular market averages by simply and systematically applying a formula that seeks out good businesses when they are available at bargain prices. Now, with a new...
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"The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today" is the collaborative work of Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner that satirized the era of political greed and corruption that followed the American Civil War. This period is often referred to as "The Gilded Age" because of this book. The corruption and greed that was typical of the era is exemplified through two fictional narratives; one of the Hawkins family, a poor family from Tennessee who try to get the government...
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Master the basics of trading and strengthen your portfolio Do you want to trade stocks, but don't know where to start? Are you scared of the risks? Relax! Trading For Dummies takes a measured approach to trading, giving you the basics of trading and portfolio management. This friendly guide will show you how to analyze the market and make smart decisions-so you won't lose your shirt! Discover how to: Understand market cycles; Choose the best broker...
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David Denby was a happy man, a content man with a good job, a wife and two sons, and an Upper West Side apartment. But in 2000, his wife asked for a divorce and he needed to hold onto his beloved home. Denby's account of his frenetic, irrational lurch toward the gold parallels the wild, dangerous and finally tragic era of an inflated stock market, inflamed greed and the willful blindness of the nation during the first three years of the millennium....
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STOCKS ARE THE NUMBER ONE MONEY-MAKING INVESTMENT TODAY. HERE'S HOW YOU CAN MAKE MONEY IN THE MARKET!
Manager of the $9 billion Fidelity Magellan Fund, he has earned investors a 190, 000 return on a 10, 000 investment over the last twelve years. Now Peter Lynch shows how you can make a profit on Wall Street with the knowledge you already have.
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• Why smart money is not so smart -- and why you may be a better stock picker than the...
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The world-renowned economist offers an irreverent analyses of financial debacle from the tulip craze of the seventeenth century to the recent plague of junk bonds.
With incomparable wisdom, skill, and wit, world-renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith traces the history of the major speculative episodes in our economy over the last three centuries. Exposing the ways in which normally sane people display reckless behavior in pursuit of profit, Galbraith...
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Over the course of his sixty-year career in the mutual fund industry, Vanguard Group founder John C. Bogle has witnessed a massive shift in the culture of the financial sector. The prudent, value-adding culture of long-term investment has been crowded out by an aggressive, value-destroying culture of short-term speculation. Mr. Bogle has not been merely an eye-witness to these changes, but one of the financial sector's most active participants. In...
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"Winner of the 2018 PROSE Award for Excellence in Social Sciences, Association of American Publishers" "Winner of the 2018 PROSE Award for Business, Finance & Management, Association of American Publishers" "Finalist for the 2017 TIAA Paul A. Samuelson Award, TIAA Institute" "Shortlisted for the 2017 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award" "One of the CNBC 13 Best Business Books of 2017" "One of Foreign Affairs Best of Books...
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Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
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2022.
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"From a successful investor and a contributor to Barron's and Fortune comes a once-in-a-lifetime book that gives modern investors what they need most: a fresh, value-based guide to making money in a stock market now dominated by tech stocks."Amazon.
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Every investor expects to make a killing in the stock market. They expect to buy low and sell high. Unfortunately, the opposite holds true.
Investors tend to buy high, and sell too low, because they're inclined to buy when the markets are rising and sell when the markets are falling. Buying and selling behaviors make it difficult to beat the market. The problem is not in the market, but in the behavior of investors. Our emotions always prevent...
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Short-Term Trading in the New Stock Market by Toni Turner is an essential guide for every money-minded trader.
In an uncertain market, can traders and investors find profits in short-term stock movements?
Bestselling author and trader Toni Turner teaches readers the techniques and strategies needed to trade in today's up-and-down stock market. The book begins with "Seven Steps to Trading Success," which outlines the logistics needed to establish...
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In 1998, Michael Parness was a struggling playwright and screenwriter who was leaving the stability of his successful sports memorabilia business to write full-time. Following the advice of a stockbroker, he invested his nest egg of $150,000. But the October 1998 crash gutted his portfolio by 80% and his stocks failed to recover. With virtually no income and no financial cushion, he found himself in a tiny low-rent apartment with time to think about...
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The book will feature interviews with 12 successful individual traders. None of the traders are professionals, but all are highly profitable and are examples of how individuals can succeed in the financial markets. The book will be divided into four sections: stocks, futures, options, and foreign exchange. Each section will begin with a description about the unique characteristics of the particular market and will include interviews with three traders....
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American companies once focused exclusively on providing the best products and services. But today, most corporations are obsessed with maximizing their stock prices, resulting in short-term thinking and the kind of cook-the-books corruption seen in the Enron and WorldCom scandals of the first decade of the twenty-first century. How did this happen?
In this groundbreaking book, Lawrence E. Mitchell traces the origins of the problem back to the first...
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First published in 1923, this fictional biography of Jesse Livermore, one of the greatest market speculators ever, is widely regarded as one of best investment books of all time. Reminiscences of a Stock Operator is the resource that generations of investors have turned to when they needed deeper insight into their own investing habits and those of others. Listen to this work, featuring narrator Rick Rohan, and you'll soon discover your portfolio...